NAME

       yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map

SYNOPSYS

       yppoll [ -h host ] [ -d domain ] mapname

DESCRIPTION

       yppoll

OPTIONS

       -h host
              Ask  the NIS server process running on host for information about mapname.  If host
              is not specified, the server polled is the default server returned by ypwhich(1).

       -d domain
              Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(1).

SEE ALSO

       domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), yset(8), ypwhich(1)

AUTHOR

       yppoll  is  part  of  the  yp-tools  package,  which  was  written   by   Thorsten   Kukuk
       <kukuk@suse.de>.